Chicago Cubs: Bill Murray shares fans' joy - BBC NewsA huge smile, then tears of joy: Bill Murray's reaction to the Chicago Cubs' baseball World Series win has resonated across social media. The US actor better known for his hangdog expression and deadpan delivery was on the pitch to celebrate before ...

Chicago Cubs fans celebrate first World Series win in 108 years - Globalnews.caChicago is known as a city that likes to celebrate and quite the party got underway Wednesday night after the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series baseball championship in over a century. READ MORE: Chicago Cubs win first World Series in 108 years ...

Log InRegister - CBS Local(CBS) — The Chicago Cubs fended off the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the World Series at Progressive Field — winning 8-7 in 10 innings and igniting a citywide celebration back home in Illinois. Tens of thousands of fans thronged the exterior of ...

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Chicago (/ʃᵻˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃᵻˈkɔːɡoʊ/), offically the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, and the county seat of Cook County. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S.Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation: O'Hare International Airport is the second-busiest airport in the world when measured by aircraft traffic; the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and rail road freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranked seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $630.3 billion according to 2014–2016 estimates. The city has one of the world's largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce.In 2015, Chicago hosted over 52 million international and domestic visitors, a new record for the city making it one of the top visited cities in the nation. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, gospel and house music. It also has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. Chicago has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City.